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How Can I Fix Garbled Chinese Characters Returned by an API?

When Chinese characters appear as garbled text in the API response, it is usually due to a mismatch in character encoding formats.

The results returned by DLI APIs are encoded in UTF-8. You need to convert the encoding format of the returned information to UTF-8.

The following example converts the encoding format of the returned response.content to UTF-8 to ensure that the Chinese characters are displayed properly. 
print(response.content.decode("utf-8"))
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